Best of British

Dates: 8.7.2009 to 27.9.2009. To complement its new and recently published Catalogue of British Pictures, Dulwich Picture Gallery will be exhibiting the best of its British paintings this summer in a captivating free exhibition telling the unique story of its British Collection. Masterpieces from the original bequests will be displayed alongside lesser-known paintings bequeathed by collectors other than the Gallerys founders, including a significant group of actors portraits from the time of Shakespeare. This is the first time that many of these pictures have been shown together in the same room and will include several usually hidden from public eyes. Following a chronological sequence the exhibition will chart the bequests by important collectors from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, offering fascinating insights into British notions of taste and the fashion to collect.Free admission with your gallery ticket.

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